Hi, I am working with some large VTK files (4GB each), and I'm attempting to setup a Paraview client/server to render them. I'm working with the latest builds of both the client and server (4.1.0-277-g1bbd3c6), with the server on Ubuntu 12.04 and the client on Mac OS X 10.9.
I've been reading the documentation on the Paraview wiki about setting up the server to run on multiple processors and GPUs, but I'm still not sure of the exact syntax I should be using when I run pvserver. I have one node with 16 cores and 2 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, and I'd like to use all these resources for processing/rendering. I can run commands like "mpirun -np 16 pvserver", and I'm successfully able to launch and connect to the server, but I don't know whether pvserver is then using both of my GPUs. http://paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server refers to doing something like "mpirun -bynode -np 8 ./pvserver -display :0.0 : -np 8 ./pvserver -display :0.1" but setting the environment variable DISPLAY instead of using -display. But I'm not sure how I would find out what values to set for DISPLAY. First, I'm not sure where my displays are located - is there any way to (a) test that localhost:0.0 and localhost:0.1 are correct, or (b) if those aren't correct, find our which ones are? Second, what is the correct syntax for setting DISPLAY to have multiple values? Something like 'export DISPLAY="localhost:0.0;localhost:0.1"'? Assuming I have DISPLAY set to the correct value, is the correct syntax for launching pvserver under my configuration "mpirun -np 8 pvserver : -np 8 pvserver"? I really appreciate your assistance in figuring this out. Thank you very much for your help! Best regards, David _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
